Duke of York, Princess Royal, Earl and Countess of Wessex carry on with normal
working day

Far from the gilded surroundings of the Chapel Royal, those members of Prince George’s family who were not invited to his christening are spending their day undertaking rather more mundane duties.

The Countess of Wessex perhaps personifies the lot of those who are banished from the baptism in St James's Palace.

She is carrying out a typical day of royal engagements in the West Country, starting with the opening of a new Girl Guides residential lodge in Wedmore, Somerset.

From there it will be on to Exeter Cathedral in Devon where the Countess, as Patron of the Two Moors Festival, will attend a concert, before moving swiftly on to Bristol where she will visit an NSPCC centre and open a gene bank.

The Princess Royal, meanwhile, is in Canada, where she will visited a medical training centre near Toronto in her capacity as Colonel-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces Medical Branch before attending a reception and a dinner in Toronto.

The Earl of Wessex began his day with a breakfast meeting at the Lanesborough Hotel in London with fellow trustees of the Duke of Edinburgh’s award, before carrying out “a full working day of meetings”, according to aides.

The Duke of York also has “meetings all day”, while his daughters Princess Eugenie, who is working in New York, and Princess Beatrice, will have to catch up on the christening via the media, like everyone else.

There was also no invitation for the Duke of Cambridge’s other uncle Earl Spencer, despite his famous pledge at the Princess of Wales’s funeral to protect Princes William and Harry, his “blood family”, as he described them.

In an earlier version of this article, we said that, “In recent years he [Earl Spencer] has grown increasingly critical of The Prince of Wales, questioning his parenting skills and his refusal to visit Princess Diana’s grave at the Spencer family estate, Althorp in Northamptonshire.” We accept that this was incorrect and apologise to Earl Spencer.